I don’t use awesomewm anymore, but used to. I am wondering if maybe it wouldn’t make sense to have a tiling wm community instead for content reasons. Could split out an awesomewm one later when there’s more lemmy users?
Just an idea. (also, I wouldn’t mind the space to talk about i3)
To be honest I’ve argued the exact same in many parts where people have suggested having individual communities which would split larger ones. Lounge hangers suggesting one per game. Or anime fans wanting one per anime.
So I kinda agree. Except this one time! 😜
Cos I like Awesome and wanted a chance to promote it to people.
Cos I’m full of optimism that Lemmy will explode in success such that we’ll need an individual AwesomeWM community pretty soon.
So I’m maybe a tiny bit hypocritical. But I prefer the term “hopeful”.
If you have any ideas, wanna help out, have any questions about Awesome, whatever! Reply or gimme a shout!
I dont think thats really the goal here. NixOS is not designed to be used by your grandmother. Better Documentation would sometimes be nice though.
By the way, there already is github.com/vlinkz/nixos-conf-editor
It isn’t not the goal, either. Nix is very popular with devs for many obvious reasons, so most of the developments naturally has to do with making that an even better experience. That doesn’t mean accessibility is a non-goal; there just isn’t a great deal of motivation to work on making the operating system easy for non-devs to use.
Probably not the goal, but a NixOS-based begginer distro could be great, with one app to install all your package and one app to manage all your settings. (I personally really like the idea of having app settings in the "general" settings app). But probably the killer advantage of NixOS is that it's really hard to break and really easy to fix, which is important for a distro aimed at the general public.
It has so many interesting possible applications. Declarative and reproducible wine configurations for games and software; universal (cross-distro) packaging (without emulated runtime environments like flatpak); reproducible user environments managed easily with a GUI with trivial version control (both for config and software versions); pre-configuring a system before even setting it up (such as configuring a raspberry pi before you’ve even bought one so that once you have, you just install and configure everything in one go).
For AppImages specifically, the guy that made the tech has had a lot of controversial arguments and opinions and a general unwillingness to accept change. Things like intentionally making it so Wayland doesn’t work because he dislikes Wayland. Also dropped a PR for AppImages for things like OBS but then refused to take responsibility for making sure all the features works and maintaining it, and then throwing a fuss when the OBS maintainers ultimately decided to not move forward with it due to lack of support commitment. Dude wanted to throw all the burden on the OBS team and then proceeded of accusing them to be paid by RedHat to favor Flatpaks. Also got mad that distros stopped shipping some outdated/unmaintained libraries AppImages relies on and refuses to upgrade it. Just massive ego problems overall around his pet project that it AppImages.
MX Linux which is number 1 on Distrowatch for a reason. Much easier than installing Debian itself which needs some tweaking, and really just Debian with some extra tools, latest Firefox… The Debian 12 based version is ready and I don’t have any issues. I also run Debian set to Trixie/Sid, which is fun if you want Debian to be like a rolling release distro, but you need to enable some bug reports and know how to manage updates to not have things break on you.
Think of AppImage like a standalone executable on windows, you download it, it just works and thats good. But it doesnt get automatic updates and to get a new feature you need to download it again. Flatpaks and Snaps don’t have this issue and are more like traditional package managers.
Syncthing. I rotate different Linux operating systems daily, but all my data is synced with Syncthing between all my machines, smartphone and a server. Kind of like Chrome OS in that I can wipe or reinstall the OS and be instantly back up and running, or even install a new version of Linux to try out.
I like appimages personally.Find them useful when i have conflict of depencies in package manager.I don’t like snaps comparing to flatpak.Flatpak let u add custom repositories but not snaps ,canonical want to control from where u will install snap apps.
I recently switched to sway and I use xeyes to “look” for applications that are not running natively. The eyes only look at applications running in xwayland when you mouse over them since they can only track the cursor there.
yeah no, the oldest commit I could find is from 2003 but if you look at the first lines in the file its at least as old as 1994, probably older than that even.
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